Essay: One year to go – will the Paris 2024 Olympics see a return to normalcy?
Olympic Games scholars ANGELA SCHNEIDER, ALAN C OLDHAM, and RICHARD BAKA, in an article first published on The Conversation, look at what to expect at next year’s Olympic Games…
Postcards: Fishermen fight to keep land as El Salvador chases surfers
ANNA-CAT BRIGIDA, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the remote community of Isla Tasajera…
OUTREACH: HOW A HEART FOR SURFERS LED A BRITISH PASTOR TO WALK AN 800 KILOMETRE PILGRIM TRAIL IN EUROPE – WITH A SURFBOARD ON HIS BACK
DAVID ADAMS speaks with British pastor Richard Ellerington about his call to minister among the surfing community around the world – and how that led to him to be the first person to walk an 800 kilometre pilgrim trail carrying a surfboard…
INDONESIA: “SURFER GIRLS” TURN THE TIDE ON SEXISM
BEH LIH YI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a social enterprise is helping girls find their feet – and not just on a surfboard…
Sydneysiders find their happy place catching a wave on ‘Fluoro Friday’
Sydney, AustraliaReuters The sun is rising over Sydney’s Bondi Beach and surfer Grant Trebilco, clad in a colourful striped long-sleeved shirt and bright yellow shorts with black polka dots, has just caught his first wave. Whether he catches one wave or a hundred, this salt water therapy, as Trebilco calls it, is where he finds […]
THE BIG PICTURE: THE 2008 JESUS PRO AM, MANLY
Christian Surfers Australia held the Jesus Pro Am at Manly’s Queenscliff Beach in early May with Maroubra surfer Blake Thornton taking our the honors in the Open Men’s division and Yvonne Byron from Figtree in Wollongong winning back-to-back titles in the Open Women’s…